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The  Seven  Wonders 
of  the  Modern 
Missionary  World 


Abram  Woodruff  Halsey 


Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S.A. 
166  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y. 


This  leaflet — “The  Seven  Wonders  of  the 
Modern  Missionary  World” — is  intended  to  sug¬ 
gest  to  pastors  and  missionary  leaders  some  of 
the  striking  characteristics  of  the  modern  mis¬ 
sionary  movement.  The  merest  outline  of  the 
subject  is  given  with  the  thought  that  fuller 
treatment  of  the  points  mentioned  can  be  left 
to  the  individual  pastor  or  leader.  Recent  books 
which  will  be  found  helpful  are :  “The  Decisive 
Hour  of  Christian  Missions,”  Mott;  “Story  of 
the  American  Board,”  Strong;  “Korea  for 
Christ,”  Davis;  “Modern  Missionary  Challenge,’’ 
Jones;  “Christian  Endeavor  in  all  Lands,”  Clark; 
“Dr.  Apricot  of  Heaven  Below,”  Kingston  De- 
Gruche;  “The  Light  of  the  World,”  Speer;  a 
series  of  articles  on  the  Eastern  question  in  “The 
Continent,”  by  Ellis,  and  freqeunt  references  in 
“Woman’s  Work,”  “All  the  World,”  “Assembly 
Herald,”  and  in  religious  papers  and  secular 
magazines.  See  also  introduction  to  the  Seventy- 
fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
U.  S.  A. 


THE  SEVEN  WONDERS  OF  THE 
MODERN  MISSIONARY  WORLD. 

The  Seven  Wonders  of  the  Ancient  World; 
The  Pyramids  of  Egypt,  the  Hanging  Gardens 
of  Semiramis  at  Babylon,  the  Temple  of  Diana 
at  Ephesus,  the  Statue  of  Jupiter  by  Phidias, 
the  Mausoleum  at  Halicarnassus,  the  Colossus 
at  Rhodes,  and  the  Pharos  (or  lighthouse)  at 
Alexandria,  fittingly  attest  the  skill,  the  genius, 
the  glory  and  the  ideals  of  that  ancient  civiliza¬ 
tion. 

The  Seven  Wonders  of  the  Modern  Mission¬ 
ary  World  attest  the  subtle  leavening  power  of 
the  teachings  of  Jesus  among  all  nations,  the 
slow  but  gradual  growth  of  the  ethical  standards 
of  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount,  the  dynamic  power 
of  the  Gospel  to  save  even  unto  the  uttermost  all 
who  come  unto  God  through  Him,  and  the  provi¬ 
dential  opportunities  set  before  the  Church  in 
the  twentieth  century. 

i.  The  Altruistic  Wonder: 

The  impact  of  the  Gospel  idea  is  felt  today  in 
all  classes  of  society  and  among  all  nations  of 
the  world  as  never  before  since  the  beginning 
of  the  Christian  era. 

The  gift  of  $10,000,000  by  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie 
for  the  promotion  of  the  peace  of  the  world  is 
significant;  the  gift  of  one  and  one-half  million 
yen  by  the  Mikado  for  the  poor  of  Japan  is  still 
more  significant.  The  President  of  Yale  Uni¬ 
versity  in  his  baccalaureate  address  at  com¬ 
mencement,  June,  1911,  declared  that  never  in 
the  history  of  the  world  have  so  many  men  been 
willing  to  give  time  and  money  and  service  for 
the  public  good.  The  will  of  the  late  John  S. 
Kennedy  was  not  only  a  revelation  of  the  char- 


acter  of  this  godly  man,  but  suggestive  of  a  new 
era  in  the  history  of  Christian  philanthropy. 

At  the  dedication  of  the  Union  Medical  Col¬ 
lege  at  Tsinan,  Shantung,  China,  April  17,  1911, 
the  governor  of  the  province  of  Shantung,  the 
ruler  of  35,000,000  people,  contributed  1,000  taels 
for  the  work  of  the  college.  Twelve  years  be¬ 
fore  the  governor  of  that  same  province  issued 
an  edict  ordering  the  massacre  of  all  foreigners. 

The  success  of  the  Chinese  government  in  the 
extermination  of  the  opium  traffic,  despite  the 
enormous  financial  losses  involved,  is  a  bit  oi 
altruistic  legislation  unparalleled  in  the  history 
of  the  race. 

The  free-will  offerings  made  during  the  cele¬ 
bration  of  the  Women’s  National  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sionary  Jubilee  will  amount  to  at  least  $1,000,000, 
an  unprecedented  sum  when  the  financial  condi¬ 
tion  of  the  country  is  considered  and  the  large 
gifts  made  during  the  year  to  Foreign  Missions 
are  taken  into  account. 

The  gifts  of  the  Christians  scattered  through¬ 
out  the  world  in  non-Christian  lands  as  tabu¬ 
lated  in  “The  World  Atlas  of  Christian  Mis¬ 
sions”  for  a  year  amounted  to  $3,246,717;  the 
gifts  of  Christians  for  Foreign  Mission  work 
from  the  homeland  for  the  same  period  amount¬ 
ed  to  $30,378,489.  We  should  multiply  the  gifts 
of  the  native  Christians  by  at  least  ten  for  any 
fair  basis  of  comparison. 

The  humanitarian  spirit  of  Jesus  Christ  is 
becoming  more  and  more  dominant  in  all  lands, 
among  all  races.  The  peace  of  the  world  so 
ably  advocated  by  the  chief  executive  of  «ur 
Republic  is  no  idle  dream,  but  is  far  within  the 
realm  of  probability  in  our  day  and  generation. 

The  missionary  is  a  factor  to  be  reckoned 
with  in  the  furtherance  of  this  great  and  noble 
endeavor. 


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a.  The  Language  Wonder: 

The  spread  of  the  English  language  is  one  of 
the  wonders  of  the  age.  The  English  language 
is  spoken  at  the  present  time  by  nearly  200,000,- 
000  people;  each  year  sees  large  additions  to 
the  group  of  English-speaking  peoples.  In  the 
Philippines  more  people  today  speak  the  English 
language  than  spoke  the  Spanish  language  after 
300  years  of  Spanish  rule. 

In  all  higher  education  in  India,  English  is 
compulsory;  in  the  secondary  schools  in  India, 
English  is  taught.  In  China,  the  government  has 
made  English  a  part  of  the  regular  curriculum ; 
it  is  taught  in  many  of  the  higher  institutions 
of  learning  such  as  St.  John’s  College,  the  Soo- 
chow  College  and  the  Canton  Christian  College 
and  other  institutions.  In  Japan,  the  students 
are  eager  to  learn  English.  It  is  the  avenue 
through  which  the  missionary  frequently  is  able 
to  reach  the  educated  classes.  In  Syria,  one  of 
the  boys  in  the  class-room  wrote  on  the  black¬ 
board,  “God  is  Love”  in  his  own  language,  thirty 
boys  followed,  each  writing  the  text  in  his  own 
language,  yet  these  boys,  sooner  or  later  will  all 
speak  the  English  language.  A  speaker  at  the 
Edinburgh  Conference  declared  that  some  mis¬ 
sionaries  read  the  Lord’s  command  as  though  it 
were  written,  “go  and  teach  all  nations  the  Eng¬ 
lish  language”.  Macaulay  says  that  whoever 
knows  the  English  language  has  “ready  access  to 
the  vast  intellectual  wealth  which  all  the  wisest 
nations  of  the  earth  have  created  and  stored  in 
the  course  of  ninety  generations.”  The  English 
language  is  the  language  of  liberty,  of  law,  of 
morals,  of  high  ideals.  The  English  Bible  which 
has  moulded  Anglo-Saxon  civilization,  is  mak¬ 
ing  no  small  impress  on  world  civilization. 

The  Greek  language  became  the  vehicle  in 
which  the  Gospel  story  was  borne  to  the  edu¬ 
cated  world  of  the  first  century.  The  English 


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language  seems  destined  in  the  providence  of 
God  to  be  the  bearer  of  the  Gospel  to  the  races 
of  the  twentieth  century. 

3.  The  Travel  Wonder: 

News  travels.  In  a  little  village  in  Korea  a 
missionary  was  informed  that  a  three-story 
building  constructed  completely  in  America  and 
sent  out  on  the  back  of  an  aeroplane  was  about 
to  be  erected  at  Pyeng  Yang.  This  in  a  remote 
village  in  Korea. 

Money  travels.  It  is  estimated  that  nearly 
$1,000,000,000  of  American  money  has  been  in¬ 
vested  in  Mexico.  The  population  of  Mexico, 
according  to  recent  census,  is  over  15,000,000, 
a  large  proportion  of  which  is  composed  of  In¬ 
dians.  The  United  States  must  exercise  some 
influence  where  so  much  money  has  traveled. 
China  has  recently  negotiated  a  loan  of  $50,000,- 
000,  which  is  to  be  distributed  in  Europe,  Great 
Britain  and  America.  The  loan  is  secured  by 
receipts  of  custom  in  Manchuria  for  forty-five 
years.  The  far-reaching  consequences  of  this 
traveling  of  money  is  self-evident. 

People  travel.  The  delegates  of  the  Associ¬ 
ated  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  Pacific  coast 
spent  six  weeks  traveling  in  China,  the  reception 
given  to  them  by  the  people  was  of  such  a 
nature  that  it  astonished  the  promoters  them¬ 
selves.  The  representatives  of  the  Chinese  press 
at  Shanghai,  in  a  word  of  greeting  declared, — 
“We  are  now  passing  through  the  transition 
period,  there  are  many  things  in  China  you  will 
not  understand,  but  one  thing  you  will  under¬ 
stand  and  that  is,  that  we  Chinese  people  are  a 
reasonable  people  and  can  be  friendly  to  those 
who  are  friendly  to  us.” 

Ideas  travel.  At  the  commencement  exercises 
of  a  high  school  at  Seoul,  the  oration  given  by 
Mr.  Yang  Ik  Whan  was  on  the  theme,  “Proper 
Thinking  the  Source  of  Personal  Elevation”. 


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This  would  have  done  for  a  high  school  gradu¬ 
ate’s  oration  in  New  England. 

Institutions  travel.  The  Union  Medical  Col¬ 
lege  of  Shantung  Christian  University,  which 
was  dedicated  April  17,  1911,  marked  an  era  in 
Chinese  education;  a  three-story  structure  with 
laboratories,  amphitheatre,  class-rooms,  clinics 
and  all  modern  appliances. 

At  the  commencement  exercises  of  the  Sever¬ 
ance  Medical  College  at  Seoul,  Korea,  six  Korean 
youths  were  graduated,  all  of  them  Christians. 
Modern  medical  science  in  Korea  begins  with  the 
stamp  of  Christianity  upon  it.  The  far-reaching 
influence  of  such  Christian  institutions  planted  in 
non-Christian  communities  is  not  easy  to  calcu¬ 
late. 

Roman  roads  made  possible  the  carrying  of  the 
Gospel  to  the  old  Roman  world.  Modern  travel 
makes  possible  the  sending  of  the  Gospel  to  the 
ends  of  the  earth. 

4.  The  Racial  Wonder: 

The  Scriptures  long  ago  revealed  that  God 
“hath  made  of  one  blood  all  nations  of  men  for 
to  dwell  on  all  the  face  of  the  earth,  and  hath  de¬ 
termined  the  times  before  appointed,  and  the 
bounds  of  their  habitation.”  This  truth  is  recog¬ 
nized  in  our  day  as  never  before. 

At  the  Silliman  Institute  on  the  Island  of  Du- 
maguete,  Philippines,  the  graduating  oration  of 
the  class  of  1911  was  delivered  by  a  Filipino 
youth,  Pablo  Zarco,  on  the  subject  of  “A  Positive 
View  of  the  Racial  Question.”  We  quote  a  few 
sentences:  “We  have  among  men,  individual  dis¬ 
tinctions,  family  distinctions,  social  distinctions, 
and  national  distinctions,  which  are  but  the  mani¬ 
festations  of  racial  distinction  in  small  degrees. 
This  distinction  is  universal,  and  the  only  way  to 
avoid  it  is  to  change  all  men  into  one  color,  to 
have  a  uniform  climate,  to  make  all  men  of  the 
same  mind,  to  give  them  equal  knowledge,  and 


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one  language,  and  then  to  take  sin  from  the 
world;  but  these  are  impossibilities;  therefore  ra¬ 
cial  distinction,  which  is  derived  from  all  these 
differences  is  unavoidable . If  we  Fili¬ 

pinos  do  really  believe  that  we  are  created,  free, 
and  the  equal  of  any  other  man  in  the  world, 
let  us  educate  our  youth,  raise  up  our  people  mor¬ 
ally,  develop  our  industries,  improve  our  forests, 
and  operate  our  mines,  and  not  leave  these  things 
to  others.”  This  lad  a  few  years  ago  was  in  ignor¬ 
ance,  today  he  voices  the  aspirations  of  a  race 
rapidly  finding  itself.  He  represents  the  new 
youth  of  the  world. 

The  new  nationalistic  movement  in  the  Turkish 
Empire  shot  through  as  it  is  with  the  thought 
of  Islamic  supremacy,  is  in  its  final  analysis  a 
new  racial  movement. 

At  a  great  meeting  held  in  Constantinople  last 
year  where  were  present  Mohammedans,  Arme¬ 
nians  and  Christians,  a  member  of  the  new  Turk¬ 
ish  Parliament  and  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  new 
Turkish  Empire,  said:  “Hitherto  we  of  Turkey 
have  looked  upon  religion  as  the  great  barrier  to 
keep  the  races  of  this  empire  apart.  Religion  to 
us  has  been  the  cause  for  race  hatreds  and  indi¬ 
vidual  hatreds,  but  now  we  are  learning  that  re¬ 
ligion  may  be,  and  is,  the  greatest  bond  to  bind 
us  together  into  a  great  fellowship  in  the  Father¬ 
hood  of  a  common  God.” 

In  the  Christian  church  in  Beirut  on  a  Sunday 
morning  can  now  be  seen  Christian  soldiers  from 
the  Turkish  army,  suggestive  of  a  racial  wonder 
which  bodes  well  for  the  success  of  the  new  Turk¬ 
ish  movement. 

The  Ethiopian  movement  in  Africa,  however 
unsuccessful  as  a  political  propaganda,  represents 
a  great  social  and  moral  upheaval.  The  Japanese 
no  longer  consider  themselves  an  inferior  race, 
since  they  have  formed  an  alliance  with  a  world 
power  like  Great  Britain  and  are  moving  ahead 
with  ever  increasing  momentum  in  all  that  makes 


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for  modern  civilization.  China  has  changed  more 
in  the  past  twelve  years  than  in  the  previous  1200. 

The  unrest  in  India  culminating  in  the  cry, 
“India  for  Indians,”  is  a  racial  unrest,  and  the 
crowding  of  thousands  upon  thousands  of  the 
sweeper  and  the  lower  classes  in  India  into  the 
ranks  of  the  Christian  Church  is  but  the  beginning 
of  the  breaking  down  of  old  racial  barriers  among 
the  300,000,000  polyglot  peoples  of  India.  The 
Gospel  which  declares  that  “God  hath  made  of 
one  blood  all  nations”  is  finding  a  ready  accept¬ 
ance  in  an  era  when  racial  distinctions  are  being 
obliterated. 

5.  The  Intellectual  Wonder. 

Japan  is  the  intellectual  marvel  of  the  Orient. 
It  has  a  postal  clearing  bank  in  which  deposits 
can  be  made  in  any  one  of  the  7,800  post  offices 
in  the  empire  by  any  person  paying  the  fee  of 
one-half  a  cent  on  a  deposit  of  50  cents,  or  not 
more  than  8  cents  on  a  deposit  of  $5,000.  Checks 
can  be  drawn  and  messages  written  on  the  back 
of  the  deposit  slip  with  no  extra  expense,  not 
even  a  postage  stamp,  save  the  small  sum  collect¬ 
ed  each  month  from  the  account.  A  missionary 
writes:  “Think  of  the  advantage  of  paying  evan¬ 
gelists,  servants,  or  what  not  when  away  from 
home  during  the  summer,  without  handling  any 
cash,  without  tedious  waits  at  the  post  office.”  In 
a  recent  issue  of  a  Japanese  paper  it  speaks  of 
Kure  as  the  largest  and  most  important  naval  sta¬ 
tion  in  the  Orient,  to  which  no  battleship  fleet  in 
the  world  could  even  approach  in  time  of  war. 
This  naval  station  is  discussed  as  an  evangelistic 
proposition  where  there  are  30,000  workmen  and 
a  large  number  of  officers  and  people  to  be 
reached  by  the  Gospel.  In  Japan,  96  per  cent,  of 
the  children  of  school  age  are  in  school. 

In  Korea,  the  Christians  purchased  and  gave 
away  within  a  twelve  month  a  million  copies  of 


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the  Gospel  of  Mark,  and  people  were  found  eager 
to  read  this  priceless  bit  of  literature. 

In  Persia,  1,500  tomans  (a  toman  is  95  cents) 
was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  missionary  and  the 
promise  of  a  new  school  building,  the  best  in  all 
Persia,  to  be  completed  by  the  fall  of  1911,  pro¬ 
vided  the  missionaries  would  open  a  school  and 
send  a  Christian  teacher. 

In  China,  more  than  40,000  schools  under  gov¬ 
ernment  control.  At  the  same  rate  of  increase  in 
the  next  ten  years,  as  in  the  last  few  years,  there 
will  be  45,000,000  pupils  in  the  schools  in  China. 
In  May,  1911,  in  the  English  Union  service  in 
Peking  a  sermon  was  preached  by  a  Chinese 
preacher.  He  was  a  pupil  in  a  mission  school. 
He  studied  at  Oxford,  England,  taking  the  full 
theological  course.  He  spent  six  years  in  Ger¬ 
many,  where  he  obtained  a  doctor’s  degree  from 
the  Berlin  University  with  high  honors.  He  has 
accepted  a  position  to  teach  in  the  Chinese  Impe¬ 
rial  University  with  the  understanding  that  no  re- 
striation  should  be  placed  on  him  as  a  Christian. 
“It  was  worth  all  one’s  life  and  work  in  China,” 
writes  a  missionary,  “to  see  and  hear  this  man 
and  realize  the  possibilities  of  Chinese  Christians 
with  education  and  Christian  training.”  He  is  no 
exception.  The  Orient  is  going  to  school. 

In  Turkey  the  minister  of  education  declares 
that  at  the  close  of  1911  there  will  be  65,000  pri¬ 
mary  schools.  In  the  Philippines  there  are  more 
than  600,000  pupils  in  the  public  schools.  The  in¬ 
tellectual  awakening  in  non-Christian  lands  is  a 
great  opportunity  for  the  Christian  Church.  The 
demand  for  the  annual  output  of  the  Bible  from 
the  Beirut  press  has  grown  from  an  annual  out¬ 
put  of  23,000  volumes  between  1880-1889  to  an 
annual  output  of  62,538  between  1900-1909;  and 
the  output  of  1910  has  leaped  to  85,775.  This  is 
indeed  one  of  the  signs  of  the  times  in  the  Ara¬ 
bic  speaking  world. 

The  Presbyterian  Board  has  in  the  foreign 


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field,  nine  colleges  and  universities,  n  theological 
seminaries,  6  medical  schools  and  colleges,  5 
nurses  training  schools,  14  industrial  schools,  3 
schools  for  the  blind,  2  schools  for  the  deaf, 
96  high  schools  and  academies  and  boarding 
schools,  and  more  than  1,800  day  schools.  Total 
number  of  pupils  in  these  institutions  last  year 
was  55,729. 

In  all  the  non-Christian  world  there  are  not 
less  than  32,924  institutions  of  learning,  with 
1,522,802  pupils;  1,653  hospitals  and  dispensaries, 
treatments  given  in  a  single  year  by  medical  mis¬ 
sionaries,  7,578,942;  572  orphanages,  leper  homes, 
and  schools  for  deaf  mutes,  with  34,206  inmates. 
A  blaze  of  intellectual,  moral  and  spiritual  light 
emanates  from  these  Christian  institutions  in  non- 
Christian  lands. 

6.  The  Devotional  Wonder. 

The  devout  spirit  of  the  non-Christian  world 
has  not  been  changed  by  any  of  the  modern  won¬ 
ders.  The  650th  anniversary  of  a  great  Buddhist 
temple  in  Kyoto  was  celebrated  this  spring,  the 
fete  lasted  ten  days,  the  worshippers  flocked  to 
the  temple,  offering  their  prayers  and  throwing  on 
the  matted  floor  a  small  coin  worth  about  one-half 
a  cent ;  the  daily  offering  for  each  of  the  ten  days 
amounted  to  17,000  yen  or  gold  $8,500.  Kyoto 
also  held  a  series  of  celebrations  connected  with 
the  temples,  tens  of  thousands  of  people  coming 
from  all  parts  of  the  empire,  some  walking  all 
the  way  and  visiting  the  temples  and  shrines  and 
as  a  reward  having  a  seal  stamped  on  their  gar¬ 
ments.  When  asked  what  avail  the  seal  was,  the 
eager  and  confident  reply  came, — that  the  gods 
of  the  temples  and  shrines  where  they  had  wor¬ 
shipped  would  come  to  meet  them  when  they  were 
called  to  the  next  world. 

The  agricultural  population  in  North  India  is 
five  to  six  hundred  per  square  mile,  in  some  dis¬ 
tricts  nearly  800.  All  India  looks  to  the  farmer. 
The  farmer  worships  his  plough  and  his  corn 


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sieve  or  winnowing  basket.  At  the  end  of  the 
sowing  season  there  is  a  regular  worship  of  the 
plough  and  sacrifices  are  made  to  it.  At  certain 
festivals  a  woman  takes  a  sieve  and  a  'house- 
broom  and  beats  them  in  every  corner  of  the 
house  to  scare  evil  spirits,  saying:  “God  abide  and 
poverty  depart.”  In  Central  India  the  marriage 
of  the  earth  to  the  plough  is  celebrated.  Certain 
deities  of  the  s&l  tree  who  control  the  rain  re¬ 
ceive  an  offering  of  fowls.  In  time  of  drought 
two  figures,  one  representing  the  god  of  rain,  the 
other  the  god  of  clouds,  are  made  with  their  legs 
and  heads  hanging  downward,  on  the  theory  that 
the  discomfort  thus  caused  will  compel  them  to 
grant  the  rain. 

At  “Old  Goa”  in  India,  the  body  of  Saint  Fran¬ 
cis  Xavier  was  exhibited  this  spring.  From  five 
to  ten  thousand  pilgrims  came  every  day  for  the 
space  of  two  months.  The  poor  villager  was  not 
permitted  to  kiss  the  foot  of  the  skeleton  save 
through  the  medium  of  the  priest’s  hand.  These 
teeming  thousands  travel  many  miles  just  to  look 
or  to  touch  through  another  the  dead  body  of 
Saint  Francis  and  this  with  all  the  enlightenment 
of  Christian  education  and  civilization  of  more 
than  ioo  years.  India  is  still  idolatrous. 

This  devotional  spirit  needs  only  to  be  turned 
into  the  right  channels  to  work  wonders.  This 
was  well  illustrated  in  connection  with  the  recent 
famine  relief  in  China.  One  of  the  missionaries, 
Dr.  Samuel  Cochran,  fell  ill  with  typhus  fever 
due  to  excessive  labors  in  connection  with  the 
famine.  Prayers  were  offered  for  him  by  the 
Christians,  Catholics  and  Protestants.  One  day 
some  men  representing  the  Chamber  of  Com¬ 
merce  of  the  cicy  of  Hwai  Yuen  came  with  a 
message  that  they  were  going  to  the  temple 
to  protect  Dr.  Cochran’s  life  for  fifty  years. 
These  men  actually  offered  to  give  up  fifty  years 
of  their  own  lives  to  the  city  god  on  condition 
that  the  city  god  would  lengthen  the  life  of  Dr. 
Cochran  fifty  years. 


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There  was  dedicated  at  Shanghai  some  months 
ago  a  memorial  hall  costing  $10,000  (Mexican). 
It  was  the  gift  of  the  children  and  grandchildren 
of  Pastor  Bau,  one  of  the  devout  preachers  of 
China ;  his  sons  and  grandsons  are  connected  with 
the  Commercial  Press,  the  largest  printing  estab¬ 
lishment  in  Shanghai ;  they  represent  three  gen¬ 
erations  of  Christians. 

At  the  meeting  of  presbytery  in  Korea  the 
Korean  missionary  who  had  been  at  Vladivostock 
made  the  closing  address.  The  pastor  of  the 
church  was  seen  weeping  and  when  asked  the 
reason,  he  replied :  “There  is  no  money  to  send 
the  missionary  back  to  Vladivostock.”  Some 
one  in  the  audience  said  he  would  give  five  yen 
($2.50),  another  said  “Stop  crying,  the  money  is 
forthcoming.”  The  next  day  the  entire  amount 
was  raised.  The  Korean  church  now  supports 
six  missionaries  in  three  stations,  one  at  Quelpart 
Island,  one  in  Manchuria  and  one  at  Vladivos¬ 
tock.  A  few  years  ago  the  Korean  people  were 
devout  worshippers  of  the  spirits.  Today  many 
thousands  worship  the  true  God  and  Jesus 
Christ  whom  He  has  sent. 

In  Japan,  the  Buddhists  have  Young  People’s 
Associations,  Women’s  Meetings,  Sunday- 
schools,  hymn-books  and  Bibles,  all  after  the 
Christian  pattern.  Recently  there  was  issued  an 
adaptation  of  the  familiar  children’s  hymn, 
which  has  obtained  wide  circulation  in  that 
country — “Jesus  loves  me,  this  I  know,  for  the 
Bible  tells  me  so,” — “Buddha  loves  me  this  i 
know”  is  the  new  song.  Imitation  is  the  sincer- 
est  flattery.  The  leaven  of  the  Gospel  is  work¬ 
ing  in  non-Christian  lands  and  the  devotional 
spirit  needs  only  to  be  turned  into  the  right  chan¬ 
nels  to  make  it  most  effective. 

At  the  commencement  exercises  of  Union 
Medical  College  in  Peking,  May,  1911,  Rev.  W. 
A.  P.  Martin,  84  years  of  age,  addressed  the 
graduates  telling  them  that  “the  old  practitioners 


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were  charlatans  and  impostors.  The  new  order 
of  physicians,  which  begins  with  this  class,  wifi 
discard  superstition  and  work  in  the  light  of 
modern  science/’  The  Exercises  of  this  Medical 
College  commencement  were  opened  with  prayer 
by  Wu  Cheng,  a  native  pastor.  Here  indeed  is 
a  wonder  of  the  missionary  propaganda ! 

7.  The  Wonder  of  Grace: 

Rider  Haggard’s  “Regeneration”  can  be  dupli¬ 
cated  in  many  lands.  The  mission  meeting  at 
Lolodorf  last  July  appointed  a  special  day  of 
prayer  for  reinforcements  for  Africa,  eighteen 
new  missionaries  were  asked  for.  Later  in  the 
year  a  group  of  Christians  came  to  Batanga  and 
asked  the  missionary  when  the  steamer  was  to 
come  in,  meaning  the  steamer  with  the  new  mis¬ 
sionaries.  “According  to  your  faith  be  it  unto 
you.”  The  new  missionaries  are  now  in  Africa. 

A  group  of  African  carriers  at  the  close  of  a 
hot  day  having  walked  twenty  miles,  each  carry¬ 
ing  forty  pounds,  said,  ‘’We  get  tired,  hot  and 
hungry,  but  these  are  nothing  to  what  Jesus  en¬ 
dured  for  us.”  The  work  of  grace  in  Kamerun, 
West  Africa,  is  marvelous,  due  largely  to  the 
zeal,  earnestness  and  holy  living  of  native  Chris¬ 
tians. 

Under  the  ministry  of  Ding  Lee  Mai,  who  was 
educated  in  our  mission  schools,  thousands  have 
been  brought  to  Christ  in  China;  in  this  number 
are  many  young  men.  Ding  Lee  Mai  is  now  visit¬ 
ing  the  leading  colleges  and  universities  in  China 
and  is  called  by  some  “The  Saint  Paul  of  China.” 
Through  his  influence  Principal  Chang  Po  Ling, 
one  of  the  great  educators  of  North  China  was 
brought  to  Christ.  Mr.  Ling  was  used  of  God  in 
securing  the  gift  of  $13,000  from  a  distinguished 
Chinese  for  a  Y.  M.  C.  A.  building  in  Tien-tsin. 
One  cannot  estimate  the  influence  such  a  man  as 
Pastor  Ding  will  have  in  coming  years. 

The  retiring  moderator,  elder  See  Mo  of  Chi- 
eng  Mai  Church,  Laos,  the  wealthiest  and  best 


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educated  man  in  the  entire  Church  with  every 
prospect  of  worldly  success,  after  most  careful 
consideration  decided  to  ask  ordination  to  the 
Christian  ministry  and  he  was  ordained.  An  in¬ 
spiration  and  hope  to  the  young  men  of  Siam, 
and  a  foretaste  of  the  intellectual  and  spiritual 
awakening  which  is  coming  in  many  lands. 

At  Ubenje,  West  Africa,  a  Mabea  woman 
walked  twenty  miles  to  attend  a  service  of  the 
Lord’s  Supper,  she  is  totally  blind  and  had  to  be 
led  every  step  of  the  way.  Her  townspeople 
said  of  her,  “She  is  a  strong  person  for  God,” 
she  was  one  of  a  company  of  forty  who,  going 
and  coming,  each  walked  forty  miles.  A  few 
years  ago  the  Mabeas  were  cannibals. 

A  dying  Chinese  woman  in  Hainan  was  asked 
what  clothes  she  would  like  to  be  dressed  in 
after  death.  This  is  a  matter  of  great  importance 
to  the  Chinese,  and  this  Christian  replied:  “It 
makes  no  difference  what  clothes  I  wear,  Jesus’ 
righteousness  will  be  my  glory  dress.” 

In  the  non-Christian  world  there  are  21,373 
missionaries;  103,000  native  assistants;  38,557 
stations  arid  out-stations  with  a  group  of  adher¬ 
ents  numbering  6,837,738.  Truly  these  are  won¬ 
ders  of  grace.  One  can  but  write  wonderful  as 
he  thinks  of  this  great  Christian  army  in  the  non- 
Christian  world.  The  power  of  one  Christ-like 
life  cannot  be  estimated.  James  Gilmour  labored 
twenty  years  in  Mongolia,  one  Mongolian  con¬ 
vert,  he  not  strong.  In  the  last  volume  on  Mon¬ 
golia,  just  published,  entitled,  “Tramps  in  Mongo¬ 
lia,”  the  author  states  that  fourteen  years  after 
the  death  of  Gilmour  he  visited  a  city  of  Mongo¬ 
lia  “and  found  a  very  few  and  sturdy  Christian 
men  remaining  there,  faithful  amid  the  passing 
years  to  the  Gospel  story  they  first  heard  from 
Gilmour’s  lips  and  proud  of  their  early  associa¬ 
tions  with  the  lonely  apostle  of  the  Mongols.” 

His  Name  Shall  Be  Called  Wonderful! 

New  York,  October  1st,  1911 

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